“May you live every day of your life.”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

“He asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the amb...”

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

“And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do ...”

“He likewise directed, that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary;...”

“Words are wind.”

“Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.”

“I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”

“Universe is nothing, but human thought.”

“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”

“There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing.”